US Patent Issued to AUDI on Dec. 16 for "Method for operating at least one direction indicator of a motor vehicle, and motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,963, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for operating at least one direction indicator of a motor vehicle, and motor vehicle" was invented by Tilman Armbruster (Ingolstadt, Germany), Stephan Berlitz (Schrobenhausen, Germany), Johannes Reschke (Langquaid, Germany) and Marcel Debelec (Ingolstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating at least one direction indicator of a motor vehicle, wherein, as of an actuation time, the direction indicator outputs a light signal comprising a periodic repetition of alternately successive on-phases and off-phases. A discrepancy of a starti...